Source: The Next Web
Enterprise IT teams are auditing their systems and finding autonomous AI agents—often deployed by individual teams without approval—already integrated into email systems, CRM databases, and development environments. These create compliance and security blind spots that traditional governance frameworks can't address. The discovery forces a conflict between the speed-of-deployment culture in product teams and the control requirements of finance, legal, and security functions. Companies must now build governance mechanisms fast enough to enable safe autonomy at scale. The alternative is binary choice between lockdown or chaos.